Publications by authors named "Maddalena Giovannetti"
Objectives: Balloon Kyphoplasty (BKP) for vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) in cancer patients is more challenging than for osteoporotic ones. Cord compressions are frequent and the incidence of complications ten-fold greater. Polymethylmetacrylate (PMMA) is the gold standard material for BKP but has disadvantages: exothermic reaction, short working time, rapid solidification, absence of osteoconduction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Spinal intradural tumors are usually removed with laminectomy/laminotomy with a midline dural incision. Pain, discomfort, postoperative kyphosis, and instability may be minimized with unilateral microsurgery.
Methods: Seventy patients with schwannoma (73 tumors) and 27 patients with meningioma (29 tumors) were operated on with unilateral hemilaminectomy (June 2000 to March 2014).
Background: Recent reports on large number of patients with brain metastases report that Whole Brain Radiotherapy (WBRT) and Radiosurgery (RS) should be the treatments of choice, particularly in multiple lesions cases. Among the prognostic factors, the cerebellar location was never considered, although this results in hydrocephalus, brain stem compression, ataxia, intracranial hypertension.
Materials And Methods: We evaluated 44 patients with cerebellar metastases operated over 6 years.
Study Design: The paper reports a minimally invasive approach to the dorsolumbar spine for the removal of neurofibromas.
Objectives: Demonstrating that a limited unilateral approach is the one of choice for this kind of tumors.
Summary Of Background Data: Spinal intradural extramedullary tumors are generally removed by single-level or multilevel laminectomy with midline dural incision.